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Stephen Fredman graduated from Point Loma High School in a large class of 900 students in 1966. I was there - that was my class too. Like many alums, Stephen left this "waspish, uncool Navy town" and he ended up teaching modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame for 37 years.…
LIKE SO MUCH ART of the present, the work of Sung Tieu necessitates a fair amount of explanatory text. Reading the growing body of writing about Tieu (the artist will open her first US solo exhibitions—“Infra-Specter” at Brooklyn’s Amant on March 30, “Civic Floor” at Cambridge’s MIT List Visual Arts Center on April 4—nearly concurrently), I was struck by the frequency with which the Cold War surfaced as a referent. The term rightly identifies the period about which much of the artist’s research is conducted, but also slyly tethers her object of study to her own artistic opera...
Revolutionary. Radical. Shocking. Just a few of the words that describe American writer and essayist Kathy Acker and her work. Her books and articles are marked by experimental, fragmented prose,
By stealing the work of others, the author remade herself—and reinvented what autobiographical writing could be.
